Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?

Crime Sci

School of Law, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT UK.

Published: August 2018

Recent studies have hypothesised that the international crime drop was the result of the rise in cybercrime. We subject this 'cybercrime hypothesis' to critical assessment. We find significant evidence and argument indicating that cybercrime could not have caused the crime drop, and so we reject the cybercrime hypothesis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6428390PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40163-018-0082-8DOI Listing

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